"The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory."

-- Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

#Determination Quotes #Differences Quotes #Victory Quotes

“The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined.”
“There are considerable mysteries surrounding the strange values that Nature's actual particles have for their mass and charge. For example, there is the unexplained 'fine structure constant' ... governing the strength of electromagnetic interactions.”

Source : Roger Penrose (2016). “The Road To Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe”, p.870, Random House
“The only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge relief after trying to get my cell phone replaced.”
“Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures... There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances, which make us insensible to it.”
“Only the autodidacts are free,”
“Perhaps because of this, many have looked at my practice in terms of science and technology, however, for me it is just as informed by Surrealism and mythology.”

Source : Source: www.patriciapiccinini.net
“Regardless of how large, your vision is too small.”
“I mean, I do wear a wedding ring and take it off when I shoot.”

Source : "Talking 'Lost' with Henry Ian Cusick". Interview with Jen Chaney, voices.washingtonpost.com. April 28, 2010.

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